About Standard Chartered

We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.

We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.

The Role Responsibilities

Programme Test Strategy and Execution

• Develop and document Programme test plan
• Develop testing strategies and framework to meet the testing mandate.
• Author and maintain Test Management Plan documentation
• Documenting tests findings
• Report on test progress as well as on agreed key performance indicators
• Maintain and publish defect logs
• Provide initial assessment of user identified defects / issues / bugs
• Define scope of testing within the context of each release/delivery

Quality Control and Quality Assurance

• Provide QC and QA for of each project plans
• QA traceability of requirements and scope
• Share experience with existing teams to improve testing policy and procedures.
• Perform systematic independent reviews and assurance reviews across the programme
• Excellent understanding of Test Strategy, Test Traceability, Test Evidences, and Test Closure Report which form UTM (Unified Test Model) pillars under SCB's System Delivery Framework

Testing Expertise and Continuous Improvement

• Provide expertise and recommendation to automate testing where possible.
• Become an expert and implement bank's testing standards across the programme
• Coach, develop and manage testing teams in matrix environment.
• Experience in testing across multiyear programmes
• Identify cross project issues and capture learning and best practices for future efforts
• Promote a culture of innovation
• Continuously seek opportunities for improvement within role, processes, team, and portfolio
• Keep up to date of industry project assurance methodologies and practices
• Influence stakeholders to ensure successful management of programmes and projects
• Educate stakeholders to improve project and portfolio effectiveness
• Have experience in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office Products

Flexibility and Programme Ambiguity

• Able to travel within region up to a week each quarter.
• Provide Leadership to Project Test Managers in a matrix environment
• Anticipate future testing needs of the programme based on the defined programme vision
• Effectively works with global on and offshore teams
• Can present and effectively advocate for the Programme.
• Ability to collaborate with different teams.

Our Ideal Candidate

• More than 5 years of Programme Testing experience
• More than 12 years of total testing experience
• Good exposure to product testing. Experience with at least one industry wide 3 rd party product.
• Any experience with industry wide workflow management products like Actimize RCM, Pega, MSI (Metric Stream) would be added advantage
• Understanding of Policy Life Cycle, Issue Management
• IT expert across design, development, testing, and implementation.
• Excellent exposure to Waterfall & Agile delivery with proven efficiency and record of accomplishment.
• Extensive exposure to Performance Testing.
• Knows what quality looks like and is willing to enforce it within Standard Chartered
• Extensive and in-depth experience in a broad range of leadership/management roles with deep technical content experience gained specifically within QA & Testing and with strong exposure to development and Program Management disciplines.
• Project and Program Management experience in large complex organizations
• Experience conducting quality audits.
• Experience leading large organizations with teams that are geographically dispersed and with virtual teams in a complex, matrix organization.
• Experience developing or implementing a QA program, rolling out standards.
• Excellent communications and presentation skills with ability to adjust communication styles depending on type of target audience.
• Excellent influential and negotiation skills.
• Experience with People Management, Vendor Management.
• Ability to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders including senior management - CIOs, COOs, senior business staff, project managers, test managers, testing staff.

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions.